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Hocus Pocus
Hocus Pocus
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
"Although it is set in the near future, HOCUS POCUS is the most topical, realistic Vonnegut novel to date, and shows the sruggle of an artist a little impatient with allegory and more than a little impatient with his own country" Jay McInerney, New York Times Book Review
ISBN-13: 9780099877103
ISBN-10: 0099877104
Publication Date: 1991
Pages: 268
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Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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"I see no harm in telling young people to prepare for failure rather than success, since failure is the main thing that is going to happen to them," writes main character Eugene Debs Hartke. And not just personal failure, but large-scale continental collapse. The American economy is dominated by Japan, colleges are turned into prisons, and Swedes are mining US forests with Mexican labor. Another Vonnegut hand-slap to America for failing to live up to his expectations for it. But he's a brilliant writer and, again in this book, someone you suspect is deeply concerned about others.


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